1875

Years: 1872 1873 1874 - 1875 - 1876 1877 1878
Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1875 in art 1875 in literature 1875 in music 1875 in science 1875 in sports 1875 in Canada List of state leaders in 1875 List of religious leaders in 1875

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

January 12 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
March 3 - The first performance of Bizet’s Carmen at the Opéra Comique, Paris
May 17 - Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby
September 1 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
November 9 - Indian Wars: In Washington, D.C, Indian Inspector E.C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States (the Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought in Montana the next year).
December 4 - Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain.

Wimbledon: Henry Cavendish Jones convinced the "All England Croquet Club" to replace a croquet court with a lawn tennis court.
Treaty of Saint Petersburg is signed between Japan and Russia.
Tong wars begin in San Francisco

January 7 - Thomas Hicks, American marathon runner
January 9 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor, socialite (d. 1942)
January 14 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, philosopher, and musician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1952 (d. 1965)
January 15 - Tom Burke, American runner
January 22 - D. W. Griffith, director
February 11 - Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer
February 26 - Hans Böckler, unionist and politician (d. 1951)
March 7 - Maurice Ravel, composer (d. 1937)
March 26 - Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea (d. 1965)
April 1 - Edgar Wallace, writer (d. 1932)
April 2 - Walter Chrysler, automobile pioneer (d. 1940)
April 4 - Pierre Monteux, conductor
April 5 - Mistinguett, French cabaret singer
April 8 - Albert I of Belgium
April 15 - James J. Jeffries, world heavyweight boxing champion (d. 1953)
May 11 - Harriet Quimby, first licensed female pilot in the United States (d. 1912)
June 12 - Sam De Grasse, pioneer Hollywood actor (d. 1953)
June 24 - Diedrich Westermann, German linguist (d. 1956)
June 28 - Henri Lebesgue, mathematician (d. 1941)
August 21 - Winnifred Eaton, author (d. 1954)
September 1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, author
October 1 - Eugeen Van Mieghem, painter
October 12 - Aleister Crowley, British occultist (d. 1947)
October 23 - Gilbert N. Lewis, physical chemist
December 4 - Rainer Maria Rilke, poet (d. 1926)
December 5 - Arthur Currie, Canadian military leader (d. 1933)
Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya